Servo - January 2007

used my Tetsujin experience to help me get an internship at KIVA Systems, a robotics start-up company in MA which is revolutionizing warehouse robotics. I continued working on robotics projects through my senior year. All of this resulted in me getting the Lombardi Scholarship at the University of Florida. This scholarship pays all of my expenses and more, as well as sending me abroad to Mexico, Greece, Japan, and South Africa each summer. The

scholarship also gives me a mentor, which will be very helpful for my future robotic endeavors. Now here at the University of Florida, I am working on a double major in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. My experience in Tetsujin got my foot through the door and the success keeps building on itself. I look back at what I knew then and compare it to what I know now and I realize that I have come such a long way. I don’t know how it could

have worked out better.”

And that’s the way it is with all robots you build. Many people start out building them to win a competition, but along the way realize that it’s not just about winning — it’s about making the best robot you can make. It’s about expanding your knowledge of how both mechanics and electronics work.